TEKKIE TONIC HTS WELKOM: November 2015

Sunday 29 November 2015

Wednesday 25 November 2015

Sunday 22 November 2015

Saturday 21 November 2015

Friday 20 November 2015

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Tuesday 17 November 2015

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School...

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven things they did not and will not learn in school.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were: So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: BE NICE TO NERDS. CHANCES ARE YOU'LL END UP WORKING FOR ONE.

Monday 16 November 2015

Your mind!!

Sunday 15 November 2015

The prison of your mind!

Friday 13 November 2015

Tshabalala collecting awards

With more than ten awards to his name already, Sibusiso Tshabalala is sure to collect many more during his promising career.

Sibusiso grew up in Sebokeng, a township near Vereeniging and Vanderbjilpark. Before spending his teenage years in Welkom, where he was a very active learner of THS Welkom. He was the Executive Junior Mayor for Matjhabeng Junior City Council. He was part of The Dynamica 3099 team (An entrepreneurial team which sole purpose was to help the community) that won the national SAGE competition and were given an opportunity to represent South Africa, in Brazi, where the team came fifth in the world. He was also part of a team that won a gold medal at the science expo held in Pretoria in 2009. He was head boy of HTS Welkom as well as hostel head boy of House Gratia.

Thereafter, he pursued his tertiary studies at the University of the Free State, which presented him with the Ambassador's Award.

Some of the highlights in Sibusiso's short but remarkable career include being selected as one of Google's 10 Young Minds in 2012. Every year, Google searches for 10 international students who show "strong leadership capabilities, entrepreneurial drive, and commitment to social activism". His Afrika Kusama initiative in the Free State, with its focus on promoting literacy and critical thinking skills among previously disadvantaged learners, won him this award. He was also listed as one of South Africa's Top 200 young South Africans by the Mail and Guardian.

These accomplishments followed various others, including a Pan African Universities Debating Championships award as one of the top 10 speakers, and an invitation to take part in the South American Business Forum in Argentina in 2011. The aim of this forum is to reduce the gap between generations and nationalities of the world's future leaders.

Despite the global recognition, Sibusiso takes pride in many local actions. He was the funding chair for South Africa's first student-driven and university-based CANSA relay for life. With such diverse experiences and so many stories to tell, it is no wonder that this vibrant young man's writing has appeared in the Daily Maverick, City Press, allAfrica.com, and the Mail & Guardian' s opinion platform. Thoughtleader.

Sibusiso is currently a Capetonian where he is the programme coordinator of the World Design Capital promotion project. It has been just over five years since he closed his schoolbooks to venture into the "real world", and he has already made a mark. There can be no doubt that he is a true ambassador for the University of the Free State.

(Cindé Greyling en Isaac Akinwotu)

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Basketbalspelers pronk in nuwe klere!!

Die kaptein van die span is Kearabetswe Mohale. Die spelers is
deur Buildmat geborg en die klere is deur mnr. Mark Grobbelaar
oorhandig! Op die foto is ook mnre. Lesala Khetheng (afrigter)
en Pieter Swanepoel (skoolhoof).

Die basket- balspan is besig om hulle vere reg te skud vir 2016 en daarvoor moes hulle 'n DIY-kenner inkry. Gelukkig het hulle aan mnr. Mark Grobbelaar se deur gaan klop en was hulp baie nader as wat hulle gedink het.

So, uitgedos in eenderse vere, hoef hulle nie in geleende vere te pronk nie! Indien die span veerkragtiger lyk, dan is dit Buildmat wat vir hierdie nuwe tred verantwoordelik is.

Sterkte vir 2016 en ons sien uit na die nuwe seisoen!

Nog foto's!